bubble and squeak
bubble and squeak noun: cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together.
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Noun
bubble and squeak (countable and uncountable, plural bubble and squeaks)
- Cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together.
- “But if she had rank and title?”
“Rank and title! Bubble and squeak! No, not half so good as bubble and squeak. English beef and good cabbage. But foreign rank and title!—foreign cabbage and beef!—foreign bubble and foreign squeak!”1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VIII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book... - “Better have it—better have it first. No hurry. What've you got in the pot that smells so good?”
“Bubble and squeak, sir.”
“Bubble and squeak! Ah!” And with those words the agent withdrew to where, in a farm wagon drawn up by the side of the road, three men were solemnly pulling at their pipes.1915, John Galsworthy, chapter XVIII, in The Freelands
- “But if she had rank and title?”
- A Greek.
- Synonyms:
- bubble
Synonyms of bubble and squeak
Forms of bubble and squeak
| plural | bubble and squeaks |
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Origin of bubble and squeak
(food): Named from the sounds during cooking.
Words formed from bubble and squeak
Questions about bubble and squeak
- What does bubble and squeak mean?
- Bubble and squeak means cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together.
- What part of speech is bubble and squeak?
- Bubble and squeak is a noun.
- What is the plural of bubble and squeak?
- The plural of bubble and squeak is bubble and squeaks.
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